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York: The Shadow Cipher Paperback - 2018
by Ruby, Laura
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From National Book Award finalist Ruby ("Bone Gap") comes the first book in an epic alternate-history series about three kids who try to solve the greatest mystery of the modern world: a puzzle and treasure hunt laid into the very streets and buildings of New York City.
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Details
- Title York: The Shadow Cipher
- Author Ruby, Laura
- Binding Paperback
- Condition Used - Good
- Pages 496
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Walden Pond Press
- Publication date 2018-05-01
- Features Maps
- Bookseller's Inventory # BOS-S-11g-01364
- ISBN 9780062306944 / 0062306944
- Weight 0.7 lbs (0.32 kg)
- Dimensions 7.69 x 5.13 x 1.13 in (19.53 x 13.03 x 2.87 cm)
- Age range 08 to 12 years
- Grade levels 3 - 7
- Reading level 780
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 19th Century
- Chronological Period: 20th Century
- Chronological Period: 21st Century
- Geographic Orientation: New York
- Locality: New York, N.Y.
- Category Children's Books/Ages 9-12 Fiction
- Library of Congress subjects Brothers and sisters, New York (N.Y.)
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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From the publisher
From the rear cover
From National Book Award finalist Laura Ruby comes a visionary epic set in a New York City at once familiar and wholly unexpected.
It was 1798 when the Morningstarr twins arrived in New York with a vision for a magnificent city: towering skyscrapers, dazzling machines, and winding train lines, all running on technology no one had ever seen before. Fifty-seven years later, the enigmatic architects disappeared, leaving behind for the people of New York the Old York Cipher--a puzzle laid into the shining city they constructed, at the end of which was promised a treasure beyond all imagining. By the present day, however, the puzzle has never been solved, and the greatest mystery of the modern world is little more than a tourist attraction.
Tess and Theo Biedermann and their friend Jaime Cruz live in a Morningstarr apartment--until a real estate developer announces that the city has agreed to sell him the five remaining Morningstarr buildings. Their likely destruction means the end of a dream long held by the people of New York. And if Tess, Theo, and Jaime want to save their home, they have to prove that the Old York Cipher is real. Which means they have to solve it.
